Mary-Anne Jess, Cormac Ryan, Shaun Wellburn, Greg Atkinson, Charles Greenough, Glynis Peat, Andrew Coxon, Helena Roper, Francis Fatoye, Diarmaid Ferguson, Alastair Dickson, Helen Ridley, Denis Martin
OBJECTIVE: To explore the association between baseline pain duration and the likelihood of re-referral of patients with low back pain (LBP) managed on the evidence-based North East of England Regional Back Pain and Radicular Pain Pathway (NERBPP). STUDY DESIGN: Longitudinal, observational cohort study. METHODS: In all, 12,509 adults with LBP were identified as having been discharged from the pathway, between May 2015 and December 2019. To quantify any association between baseline pain duration and the likelihood of re-referral, two statistical modelling approaches, were used: logistic regression models for odds ratios and generalised linear models with a binomial link function in order to quantify risk differences...
July 29, 2023: Physiotherapy